American Tower has dropped plans for an Edge data center in New Jersey.East Greenwich Township this month announced that American Tower had formally withdrawn its application and would no longer be pursuing approval of the proposed data center project before the Planning and Zoning Board.The company was looking to develop a 4MW, single-story facility at 114 Mantua Road in the Mount Royal section of East Greenwich.The site currently houses an American Tower cell tower dating back to the 1960s and supporting buildings, with American Tower looking to develop a 15,895 sq ft (1,476 sqm) data center on wooded land within the property.First proposed in April, the company's application was set to be discussed by officials at a meeting this week.A petition against the project gained more than 5,800 signatures. The New Jersey chapter of the Sierra Club was also against the development.East Greenwich Township is a township in Gloucester County, New Jersey, some 20 miles southwest of Philadelphia. The township has now banned future data center development.“Over the past several months, this proposal has generated significant public interest and discussion throughout our community,” Jim Philbin, the mayor of East Greenwich, said in the announcement. “In response to concerns raised by residents and the evolving understanding of data center development, the Township Committee also took proactive steps to evaluate the long-term impact such facilities may have on our community. As part of that effort, the Township was one of the first municipalities in South Jersey to adopt an ordinance to prohibit future data center development within East Greenwich Township.”As well as owning data center firm CoreSite, American Tower is developing a number of Edge data centers at cell tower sites across the US. The company has identified “more than 1,000 plots of land” that it owns or has long-term leases for potential development into multi-megawatt data centers.American Tower recently launched a 1MW facility in Raleigh, North Carolina, and has previously filed to develop another in San Antonio, Texas.Other sites set for development include Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (4MW); Sacramento, California (4MW); Austin (4MW), Houston, and San Antonio, Texas; Omaha, Nebraska; Detroit, Michigan (4MW); Baltimore, Maryland; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (4MW); Tampa, Florida (4MW); and Charlotte, North Carolina (1MW).American Tower recently paused plans for a 4MW facility at a broadcast tower site near Indianapolis, Indiana, after the city said it would be revising its zoning ordinances with regard to data centers.